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50 Whys to Leave Your Lover
Of all the reasons to dump someone, "we met online" is a terrible one. In Sex Drive Daily. From Wired News on July 28, 2006 at 9:46 p.m..

Brian Lamb - RSS and the Academic Library - Abject learning
Discussion and a good set of links on the topic of RSS and libraries. He adds, "There are already librarians at UBC using this technology quite well (check out Sally Taylor's page on Fisheries that subtly employs RSS feeds in a few places), and I'm hoping yesterday's energetic session is the harbinger for some hardcore free-flowing info action in the near future." [Link] [Tags: ] [Comment] From OLDaily on July 28, 2006 at 9:45 p.m..

Mark Oehlert - activeCollab: Free Collaboration and Project Management Tool - E-Clippings
Cited from the activeCollab website: "activeCollab is an easy to use, web based, open source collaboration and project management tool. Set up an environment where you, your team and your clients can collaborate on active projects using a set of simple, functional tools." [Link] [Tags: Project Based Learning, Open Source] [Comment From OLDaily on July 28, 2006 at 9:45 p.m..

Michael Feldstein - Blackboard Patents the LMS - E-Literate
This would be funny if it weren't so ridiculous: "The ever-brilliant US Patent and Trademark Office has apparently granted Blackboard a patent for...well...pretty much anything remotely related to learning management systems. As I read it, Blackboard basically owns the patent on any sort of groupware at all that is used for teaching purposes." [Link] [Tags: Blackboard, Copyright and Pat From OLDaily on July 28, 2006 at 9:45 p.m..

Tim Lauer - DOPA Watch - Education/Technology
I haven't been covering DOPA - the legislation that effectively makes MySpace and blogging in schools and libraries illegal - because I consider it an internal U.S. issue. But Andy Carvin has shown how aggregation is best used by setting up a DOPA news service, for those who want to follow the issue and act against the legislation. [Link] [Tags: Web Logs, Schools] [OLDaily on July 28, 2006 at 9:45 p.m..

Stephen Downes - Cooperation and Competition: National Learning Object Repositories - Stephen's Web
Another day, another talk in Colombia. Today's talk continued from yesterday and turned our attention to digital repositories. Slides and MP3 audio. You may have had difficulty accessing yesterday's slides; I had a file upload problem. That has been fixed; here are the link to yesterday's slides and audio. Photos coming soon. [OLDaily on July 28, 2006 at 9:45 p.m..

We Like WYSIWYG 2.0
A new web development application makes it simple to add Web 2.0 behaviors to your site. In Monkey Bites. From Wired News on July 28, 2006 at 7:45 p.m..

Testament Collection is Out!
The first five issues of Testament are now available in a collected edition. This is the right way to read this comic book. No ads, no month-long wait for the next 22 pages, and a nice explanatory introduction. This is the whole Akedah and then some, told as you probably never heard it before.< From rushkoff.blog on July 28, 2006 at 4:45 p.m..

DVR Households: Heavy Media Users
DVR and VoD usage continues to grow; current households tend to be more affluent and heavy media users. From ClickZ Stats on July 28, 2006 at 4:45 p.m..

Is 'Trash-Diesel' Snake Oil?
A company claiming it can turn landfill into diesel has questionable technology and a CEO with a history of lying. In Autopia. From Wired News on July 28, 2006 at 2:46 p.m..

TruScene Spies Vehicle Miscreants
A camera that mounts to your rearview mirror acts as an on-board witness to crimes against your car. No more anonymous parking-lot dings. In Gear Factor. From Wired News on July 28, 2006 at 1:45 p.m..

Young Coders Summer on Google
Google's Summer of Code pays hundreds of students to work on open-source projects, hooking them up with big-name mentors. But a few of the kids are feeling the heat. Joanna Glasner reports from the O'Reilly Open Source Convention in Portland, Oregon. From Wired News on July 28, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

Teens Online: Not a Freak Zone
A sex educator's Virtual Mystery Tour takes parents on a magical journey through the realities of teen internet use. It's not as scary as it sounds. Commentary by Regina Lynn. From Wired News on July 28, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

Home Office? It's in the Yard
A hot-tub maker gets with the times by producing a DIY cedar home office kit for the telecommuting crowd -- but where's the soaker? By Holly J. Wagner. From Wired News on July 28, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

Powering Up, One Step at a Time
The world's most innovative renewable energy source might be right under our feet. By Eliza Barclay. From Wired News on July 28, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

Confessions of a Cybermule
He's a 44-year-old "casher" who turned stolen credit-card accounts into cash for East European hackers. Now his life at the bottom of the cybercrime food chain has landed him in jail, and federal agents are sniffing at his heels. By Kim Zetter. From Wired News on July 28, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

Kaiser Joins Lost Laptop Crowd
A laptop stolen from Kaiser contains personal information on 160,000 hearing impaired HMO subscribers, according to a tip received by Wired News. Can you hear the word encryption now? In 27B Stroke 6. From Wired News on July 28, 2006 at 2:45 a.m..

Funding a Global-Warming Skeptic
Alarmed by "alarmist" scientists, utility companies raise big money to bankroll a dissenting voice. Some call the doubting climatologist more lobbyist than researcher. From Wired News on July 27, 2006 at 11:46 p.m..